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Are your children circling around the house?

Chances are it will end in an argument!

Even if it may seem tempting to put them in front of the TV or the iPad ...

... there are much more fun ways to keep them busy!

And this without requiring all of your attention and time.

here is 43 simple indoor activities to occupy bored children at home. Look :

1. Camp the house. Lend your children a flashlight, a large sheet. And offer them to create a campsite. You can even organize a picnic lunch.

2. Organize a plush hide-and-seek. The principle ? You hide a stuffed animal and the children have to find it. Be careful, they heat up ...

3. Challenge your kids to put together a "pestacle" which will have to start at 5 p.m. sharp. It's up to them to create a show, with a script and costumes, like the pros.

4. Bowling around the house with a foam ball and plastic bottles. Children should note the points scored.

5. Challenge your kids to create the biggest Domino line possible in the house.

6. Have your children write a list of things that you could improve as a parent. It’s a good way to start a constructive dialogue. They will surely have a lot to say and you may have some good surprises!

7. Organize the greatest small car circuit of all time. Use a roll of colored adhesive tape that you stick to the ground, make a circuit that will pass under the tables, on the stairs… Ride cars!

8. Have your children make sculptures with toothpicks and marshmallows. The hardest part will be not to eat the works ;-)

9. Challenge your children to draw their self-portrait thanks to mirror then to draw their brother or sister.

10. Have your kids organize a giant tea party where all the dolls and soft toys in the house will be invited. Organizing this tea party will keep the kids busy for a while!

11. Have your children write a letter to their siblings on how to be better siblings. They can make a long list for you to put on the fridge. The dialogue is always constructive ;-)

12. Challenge your kids to create an indoor rainbow. To do this, take a glass filled with water. Put a small mirror in it. Turn on your flashlight and aim the beam at the water. Shake the glass lightly. You will see a rainbow appear. For this to work, your room must be dark and the walls must be white. Otherwise you can also put the glass in front of a white sheet.

13. Make a puzzle with a maximum of coins.

14. Fill the tub, put in small containers, kitchen utensils. And let's go: your kids will love playing with water! Consider protecting your bathroom floor with towels. Chances are there will be splashing.

15. Hold a monster contest. May the best draw the most terrifying monster!

16. Have your children build an indoor hut using sheets, blankets, clothes pins.

17. Teach them to play checkers or chess. Then let them play with each other ;-)

18. Organize a treasure hunt in the house with a huge list of items to find.

19. Organize a "snowball" fight preferably with old white socks.

20. Shuffle the pieces of two puzzles. The challenge is to separate the pieces and do the puzzles as fast as possible.

21. Hide their toy cars in the house. And challenge your children to find them. The goal is to discover as many cars as possible.

22. Challenge your children to make the most beautiful pictures inside a large cardboard box. It should keep them busy for a long time!

23. Have them build a little hut out of sugar cubes, in candy and pretzel. Hansel and Gretel will be jealous!

24. Have them make collages. All you need are stickers, stickers, and foils.

25. Cut out a piece of picture from a magazine and ask your children to draw around it, for example, to make a cartoon or a story to tell.

26. Make a bird feeder. Cut a carton of milk in half. Put in some seeds, bread crumbs, butter. And put it outside. Then with a book on birds, help your children identify the birds that come to peck.

27. Make an indoor hopscotch with adhesive tape, stuck to the ground.

28. Challenge your children to make a house or a monster out of plasticine.

29. Make play dough. You will see it is not complicated. Try this easy-to-make recipe.

30. Challenge your kids to succeed in yoga positions by watching this video on Youtube. They will learn to calm down by exercising and you will have 1 full hour just for you!

31. Have your children make the biggest collage. To do this, provide them with old magazines, large blank sheets of paper, and scissors.

32. Start a Lego contest. Ask them to make the tallest tower, a spaceship with blue bricks, an animal, a character, a vehicle ... in a limited time (10 or 15 min).

33. Ask them to build a huge Lego maze to drive small remote-controlled cars, small friction insects or Hexbug.

34. Ask them where they would like to go on your next family vacation. Then with a map or travel magazine, do some research on the chosen region or country.

35. Have your children take pictures of amazing, funny or cool things around the house.. To do this, lend them an old smartphone with a camera. You might be surprised by their photo report!

36. Blow up a balloon and organize a contest of whoever keeps the ball in the air the longest.

37. Set up an indoor golf course. To do this, use sideways cups or cans and a ping-pong ball.

38. Ask them to make up a story. And help them write it: it will be their first novel!

39. Have your children prepare a show for you for snack time with a few finger puppets.

40. Tell them to organize an obstacle course to cross as quickly as possible.

41. Help your children draw their whole bodies. To do this, assemble several large sheets with tape. Have the children lie down on the leaves. Then with a felt-tip pen, draw their outline. Then it's up to them to fill in the resulting form!

42. Ask them to draw a nice picture then write on the back what they do with their days while on vacation. Grandparents will be delighted to receive this little note

43. Have them inflate balloons with baking soda. It’s a great fun experience, you’ll see! Find out how to do it here.

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